Q33
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
After the Surat Split in 1907, the second split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of
- a.Lucknow Pact
- b.Montagu Declaration
- c.Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
- d.Both (B) and (C) above
Answer: (B) Montagu Declaration
After Montagu's August Declaration of 1917, the Montagu–Chelmsford reform proposals appeared in July 1918. A special Congress session at Bombay (August 1918) called them "disappointing and unsatisfactory", whereupon the Moderates led by Surendranath Banerjea, who wished to accept them, walked out and formed the National Liberal Federation (1918–19). That was the second split. The Lucknow Pact (1916) was the Congress–League accord made at the very session where Moderates and Extremists reunited after the Surat Split of 1907, and Annie Besant's election as the first woman President (Calcutta, 1917) caused no split.